Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 31 of 39 – Russia

Russia has missed a trick - they led everyone to believe by their silence that Little Big were going to have a second bite...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 6 of 39 – Bulgaria

When I come to write these reviews, I don’t generally set out to try and rubbish a songwriter's work and, usually, try to find...
Benny Cristo

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 9 of 39 – Czech Republic

As we don’t write these in one group setting, and we can’t anyway with Covid, we don’t know what each of us has written,...

Nick’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Sweden

SWEDEN - Tusse - Horses SCENE: A brightly lit and spacious performance area. An engaging man and a charming woman enter the stage to fading applause. Jacques Deschenaux, for it...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 25 of 39 – Netherlands,...

There are two main schools of thought when it comes to the Eurovision contest of songs.  The first one is that the host nation...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 33 of 39 – Serbia

This song is nearly excellent. It has a banging great beefy introduction which leads into a regulation banger verse which despite being in Serbian...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 38 of 39 – Ukraine

Even when the world is going to pot, like it has done in the last 18 months, some things in life are certain. Ukraine...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 28 of 39 – Poland

There was not a lot of love for this song, and it’s pretty easy to see why.  On the face of it its your...

Phil’s Eurovision countdown 2021 – Part 39 of 39 – United...

One is allowed to be a touch biased towards one’s home broadcaster, no? Well, yes, because for year upon year, we’ve suffered with the...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 9 – Czech Republic

Omaga by Benny Cristo Not gonna lie, Benny was the one I was most looking forward to last year. Yes, in that shallow kind of...